THE LOW BUDGET FESTIVAL SPEAKS… FRENCH
THE LOW BUDGET FESTIVAL SPEAKS… FRENCH
Follow the theatre’ s young people cause they are its future!
After organizing two successful series of the “Low Budget Festival”, www.tospirto.net goes further to one more, this time in cooperation with the French Institute of Greece and as usual in the hospitable garage area of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation.
We keep on looking for the truth and the spirit in theatre. For this reason we are charging three talented Greek directors with the plays of three French writers (translated to Greek) underlining that theatre has a common language and a common vision.
Vassilis Mavrogeorghiou (25, 26, 27/5), Elli Papakonstantinou (28, 29, 30/5) and Giorghos Karamichos (31/5 & 1, 2/6) are the artists who will present their work in this festival of short duration but of great goals.
25, 26, 27 May 2012
“Un homme en faillite”
By David Lescot
Bankrupt as a situation, as a circumstance, as an outcome, as a way of living, as a gradual voluptuous collapse, as an excuse for self destruction. Bankrupt with its own rules, marks out the space, plans time, divides, adds, subtracts, sets directions and deconstructs the daily scenery of a man who has now started keeping a record of the days repeating functions.
Coffee, music, the talk with his girlfriend are not just vague needs but mechanical movements of a bigger mass. Of a choreographed plan in a wider urban context.
The hero encircled in a small square, is under fire by the constant change of his personal space, while the commissioner counts his fortune. Through theatrical techniques like the platform we try to narrate a technocratic tale during which the hero gets shrunk to end up at the size of a few millimeters.
28, 29, 30 MAY 2012
“Ma vie en chandelle” by Fabrice Melquiot
An entirely unexpected encounter in a bed. Two men and a woman, an erotic triangle, a story of passion, a journalistic penetration into the sanctuary places of private sphere, a provocative narration that promises many upsets. At the operating table of Fabrice Melquiot opens the prospect of the greatest erotic story, from Medea to Ibsen. Finally despite the promises and with large portion self-sarcasm, the audience will face an unreal, insignificant, nowadays story (of love?). At the operating table of Melquiot the nowadays human being stands feeling guilty before his perspective. The performance is a game of frustration to every known cliché of theatre.
By Remy de Vos
Madlene – the mom
Simon – the son
Anne – Simon’s childhood love
A triangle with very flexible angles
A black comedy which begins with grandmothers’ cremation and ends up to a marriage.
An accident with the urn gives rise to a wild and fun game of sentimental alternations between mourning and love.
Three inopportune figures which are called to renegociate their fears and wishes, facing complexes of the past and the ghosts of the future.
As the plays translator Dimitris Filias very correctly points out, the writer Remy de Vos is qualified with a contemporary subversive writing which opens new theatrical paths at the dawn of the 21st century.
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General Admission: 10 euros
Starting Time: 9 pm
Ticket presale starts on May 4th, 2012
Presale: www.mcf.gr, at Public stores and at the Foundations Box office. (Piraeus 206, Tavros), 210 3418579 (Mon-Fri 11:00 – 14:00)
